Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction : Sociolinguistics in Search of a Place among the Academic Disciplines and Political Practices -- 2 Notes on Sociolinguistics -- 3 On the Social in Language and the Linguistic in Society -- 4 Some Issues in Sociolinguistics -- 5 Language and World Vision : Problems of African Ethnolinguistics -- 6 Convergent and Divergent Aspects of Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics -- 7 Register in Descriptive Linguistics and Linguistic Sociology -- 8 Language Planning -- Biographical notes -- Backmatter